This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. When my young daughter says she’s thirsty, I take for granted that the water from our kitchen tap is clean and safe.

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. From India to Bolivia, it was always the women who knew exactly how much water their family needed. When photographer ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... etched heartland is the scene of one of the most dire water crises today. Last year, a government study revealed ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Most people don’t have the opportunity to swim in aquifers, but National Geographic Young Explorer Jennifer Adler ...

This story appears in the April 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. If I were called in / To construct a religion / I should make use of water, wrote the English poet Philip Larkin in 1954 ...

His photos appear frequently in National Geographic magazine ... will ever lose our fascination with the delights of cascading water plunging dramatically from on high. But ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... and made rainfall and temperatures unpredictable. Water is needed to irrigate the fields of barley, apples, and ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... thanks largely to their geology and water chemistry. In these flooded caves, such as Stargate on Andros Island ...

Two-year-old Annalea Garcia is bathed nightly by her mother, Crystal, in a bucket filled with water hauled from ... in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine.